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Originally Posted by dallasnovelty
I have been trying to find out how people are making blogs for posting pics from the big affiliate programs. How they set them up, get them working and replicating the procedure and scale up to have a huge blog network.
Finding advice like this is always tough even in the mainstream world. Because people don't want you to steal their meal ticket and make it similar or better than theirs.
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In mainstream there are products that offer guidance and useful information, but there is also a lot of rubbish. Trying to find the useful gems can be a challenge. My goal at the end of the day isn't to take someone's meal ticket - it's to work with someone and learn, while building a business that they will also benefit from?
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Originally Posted by dallasnovelty
I think the above scenario scares a lot of the online companies because people always want the greener grass and think they can do it better and go around their mentor. This business changes so much and is so dependent on SERPs that by the time you write a book telling people how to do it it would be outdated and might even be penalized for the old method. I would really like to just talk to a successful blog network owner and tell them my situation and what I am wanting to do in the future. I just want to make sure what I am doing is just wasting time or could actually be scaled up to something that might make money.
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As I've already been burnt by someone in this market that offered assistance I'm definitely going to be careful, but screwing over your mentor would be a very very stupid thing to do. In my opinion a mentor is someone who is actually taking a risk with someone new, so surely any respectable person would be loyal and respect their mentor.
You've hit the nail on the head with your last sentence, I could sit here in front of my pc and try my own marketing methods for days on end - but like you say I could be doing it totally wrong and be wasting ages. This is where I hope a mentor would help to steer me in the right direction.
Maybe the word mentor is too strong, could they be called a consultant?
Your story is very motivating and that is how I see it as well, even in the offline world. Start with someone who is willing to invest in you and then grab that opportunity with both hands and make the most of it!